The comments at the end by Republican consultants are quite interesting.

Why? Isn't that what most of us have been saying for a long time?

I fully expect the Obama ticket to win in November. Not even the Democrats, as incompetent as they are, could mess up THAT badly.

But this election has been really interesting on two fronts.

One, it shows how much the Abortion millstone hangs around the Democratic neck. If Obama was pro-life, we would be talking a majority of truly EPIC proportions. With McCain's strategic VP pick (who knew he had it in him?) it's actually become sort of a horse race.

The second point is how certain members of the left (on AI and in the wider society) have become so scarred by defeat over the years that they absolutely cannot believe they are going to win this time. Every talking point must be hammered home and the advantage must be seized on every front.

Case in point is this thread. The DNC thread was started by a Democratic supporter. But the official RNC thread could not be left to a Republican. Not at all.

Ease up and enjoy the ride guys. This is supposed to be fun. Important, but fun.

I fully expect the Obama ticket to win in November. Not even the Democrats, as incompetent as they are, could mess up THAT badly.

But this election has been really interesting on two fronts.

One, it shows how much the Abortion millstone hangs around the Democratic neck. If Obama was pro-life, we would be talking a majority of truly EPIC proportions. With McCain's strategic VP pick (who knew he had it in him?) it's actually become sort of a horse race.

The second point is how certain members of the left (on AI and in the wider society) have become so scarred by defeat over the years that they absolutely cannot believe they are going to win this time. Every talking point must be hammered home and the advantage must be seized on every front.

Case in point is this thread. The DNC thread was started by a Democratic supporter. But the official RNC thread could not be left to a Republican. Not at all.

Ease up and enjoy the ride guys. This is supposed to be fun. Important, but fun.

The sure thing premise might make sense if a) America had a professional, non-corporate media that served as a brake on using overt lies as a central campaign strategy, instead of a lazy, vapid, gossipy entertainment press eager to embrace the next right wing narrative, since that's the path of least resistance and, b) the Bush admin hadn't spent the last eight years turning every aspect of government into a functional wing of the RNC, including most especially Justice, and further spent those years cultivating a "voter fraud" hoax as a cover for voter suppression campaigns.

They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility.